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Hometown History
Shane Waters
184 episodes
2 days ago
Every hometown has a story worth preserving—and most have been forgotten. Hometown History uncovers the overlooked events, mysteries, and tragedies from small-town America that never made it into the textbooks. Meticulous research meets respectful storytelling in 20-minute episodes perfect for your morning coffee. From deadly disasters to hidden triumphs, each week explores a different community's untold chapter. No sensationalism. No filler. Just the surprising, forgotten stories that shaped the America we know today. For curious minds who believe history is happening everywhere—not just in the big cities.
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Every hometown has a story worth preserving—and most have been forgotten. Hometown History uncovers the overlooked events, mysteries, and tragedies from small-town America that never made it into the textbooks. Meticulous research meets respectful storytelling in 20-minute episodes perfect for your morning coffee. From deadly disasters to hidden triumphs, each week explores a different community's untold chapter. No sensationalism. No filler. Just the surprising, forgotten stories that shaped the America we know today. For curious minds who believe history is happening everywhere—not just in the big cities.
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History
Society & Culture,
True Crime
Episodes (20/184)
Hometown History
Boise City, Oklahoma: The Night America Bombed Its Own Town
2 days ago
19 minutes

Hometown History
Edgefield, South Carolina: The Devil's Bargain Murder Trial of 1850
1 week ago
21 minutes

Hometown History
Hagerstown, Indiana: The Blind Engineer Who Invented Cruise Control
2 weeks ago
15 minutes

Hometown History
Gay Head, Massachusetts: 103 Souls Lost Half a Mile from Shore
3 weeks ago
26 minutes

Hometown History
Gauley Bridge, West Virginia: America's Deadliest Industrial Cover-Up
1 month ago
19 minutes

Hometown History
Wheeling, West Virginia: When Steel Workers Became Radio Stars
1 month ago
24 minutes

Hometown History
Erie, Pennsylvania: The Wall of Water That Killed 36
1 month ago
22 minutes

Hometown History
Athens, Tennessee: The 1946 GI Rebellion and the Limits of Armed Reform
1 month ago
13 minutes

Hometown History
Osage County, Oklahoma: The Oil Murders That Created the FBI
1 month ago
22 minutes

Hometown History
Kalaupapa, Hawai'i: The Saint of Exiles and Hansen's Disease Colony
2 months ago
22 minutes

Hometown History
Africatown, Alabama: The Last Slave Ship and the Town Built by Survivors
2 months ago
29 minutes

Hometown History
Exeter, Rhode Island: America's Last Vampire Exhumation
3 months ago
10 minutes

Hometown History
Ottawa, Illinois: The Radium Girls' Fight for Justice
4 months ago
17 minutes

Hometown History
Wahpeton, North Dakota: When Lightning Struck the Circus in 1897
5 months ago
35 minutes

Hometown History
Hickory, North Carolina: The 54-Hour Polio Hospital Miracle of 1944
6 months ago
55 minutes

Hometown History
How Wabash, Indiana Saved Its Main Street
6 months ago
41 minutes

Hometown History
American Nursing: How a Profession Was Born from War and Reform
6 months ago
9 minutes

Hometown History
The Lady with the Lamp: Florence Nightingale's War on Death
7 months ago
9 minutes

Hometown History
London: The Dark Origins of Nursing
7 months ago
18 minutes

Hometown History
West Virginia: The Vanishing of the Sodder Children
9 months ago
13 minutes

Hometown History
Every hometown has a story worth preserving—and most have been forgotten. Hometown History uncovers the overlooked events, mysteries, and tragedies from small-town America that never made it into the textbooks. Meticulous research meets respectful storytelling in 20-minute episodes perfect for your morning coffee. From deadly disasters to hidden triumphs, each week explores a different community's untold chapter. No sensationalism. No filler. Just the surprising, forgotten stories that shaped the America we know today. For curious minds who believe history is happening everywhere—not just in the big cities.